Archive for April 5, 2011

Mike Nichols, talking to Steven Soderbergh on the commentary track of WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? on the subject of “opening out” plays ~

“I think about this all the time, because there’s nothing as depressing as in a bad play or production, when the last actor has come on, because there’s nothing left to hope for. You’ve now seen everybody they’ve got to offer you, and if somebody isn’t funny or sexy or something, and the play is bad, you’re TRAPPED. In a movie, as you say — suddenly there could be a belly-dancer, or you could be in Scotland… anything.”